AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD 2013-05
G

NVIDIA Quadro K5000

NVIDIA 2012-08

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2013
Aug 2012
Generation
Solar System
Quadro Kepler
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1350 MHz
Base Clock
-
706 MHz
Boost Clock
-
706 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
172.8GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
1536
TMUs
48
128
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
22.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
2.169 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
90.37 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Saturn
GK104
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
-
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
294 mm²

Board Design

TDP
100W
122W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.175
Shader Model
6.3
6.5 (5.1)
CUDA
-
3.0